Dalton named new Newmarket Junior-Senior High School principal

Thursday

NEWMARKET – David Dalton has been named the next principal of the town’s junior-senior high school.

Superintendent Susan Givens made the announcement in a letter to parents May 1. The School Board approved the appointment on April 30.

Dalton is the former principal of Ipswich High School.

A search committee made up of faculty members and parents selected Dalton as well as Dover’s St. Thomas Aquinas High School Associate Principal Shannon Caron as the two finalists.

According to Dalton’s resume, he is currently employed at Merrimack College as an education program supervisor, helping education graduate students through their internships. He previously served as the Ipswich High principal in Ipswich, Massachusetts, from 2012 to 2018.

Dalton began his education career at Ipswich as a science teacher in 1985 and assumed the position of athletic director concurrently in 1996 before being promoted to assistant principal in 2001 and later principal.

Dalton holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Simmons College in Boston and has his bachelor’s degree in science from Saint Anslem’s College.

Dalton takes over for Chris Mazzone, who was placed on leave last November and eventually reassigned to oversee construction work at the school in January. Elementary School Principal Sean Pine was named acting principal of the high school also in January until the end of the academic year.

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